Prof. Greg Jackson
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Prof. Greg Jackson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's about four o'clock in the freezing afternoon, January twenty-fifth, seventeen eighty-seven.
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And forty-year-old farmer Daniel Shays is doing something that, a few years ago, he never would have imagined.
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He's leading a force of well over a thousand farmers through four foot deep snow in western Massachusetts out to arm themselves in their ongoing struggle against their own state government.
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This isn't what he wanted.
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Daniel believed in the promise of a king free Massachusetts and America.
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A militiaman turned continental captain.
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He fought bravely at Bunker Hill, at Saratoga, at Stony Point.
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General George Washington personally selected him to guard Major John Andre in the final moments before the British officers hanging.
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but Congress, which, as we know from Episodes eleven and fourteen,
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Has no power to tax under the current articles of Confederation.
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never properly paid him for his years of service.
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All Daniel received were nearly worthless IOU certificates.
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And now, under the influence of coastal merchants, the likewise strapped for cash Massachusetts state government has raised taxes and demanded payment not in farm goods or congressional IOUs, but in coin.
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And the courts are foreclosing on farmers who can't pay.
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In short, Massachusetts is facing a cascading cash crisis, and the state's western farmers, many of whom bled and risked their lives for the state's liberty, are being forced to bear the brunt.
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But these farmers, who've tried to play nice, some have sold their IOUs for pennies on the dollar.
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Daniel even sold the sword given to him by the Marquis de Lafayette have hit their breaking point.
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And it's not like soldiering against an oppressive, tax happy government is unfamiliar to them.
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So
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Here they go again.
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